Tuesday, June 23, 2008Everyday.com.kh
Translated from Khmer by Heng Soy
The ECCC is paying for a new pair of glasses for Kaing Kek Iev, aka Duch, the former S-21 jail chief so that he can see and read documents. His old pair of glasses was too difficult for him to use. Reach Sambath, KR Tribunal spokesman, told the Rasmei Kampuchea on 21 June that KRT officials took Kaing kek Iev to see an eye doctor to get him a new pair of (reading) glasses so that it would improve his living condition, and in particular, so that he can read various documents as he is an avid reader. Kar Savuth, Duch’s lawyer, asked the KRT to change his client’s old glasses as they can no longer be used. This is a simple pair of reading glasses that does not cost too much, nor was it a pair of fancy glasses. Reach Sambath said this is part of the ECCC policy, as it must fulfill all the needs of the prisoners. The tribunal must fulfill all the prisoners’ needs, in terms of material needs, emotional needs, and intellectual needs during their legal fights in the tribunal. For example, in Duch’s case, the tribunal allows him to find out about all the historical facts, the legal facts in all the court documents provided to him so that he can be prepared during the upcoming KRT hearing.
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The following remark by French historian Marc Bloch may be relevant to the Khmer Rouge and other trials: " The most reliable touchtone of s social system is the manner in which men are judged in court." ("Comment les hommes etaitent-ils judges? Pour un systeme social, point de meilleure pierre de touche que celle-la").
A British judge, a Buddhist scholar, when asked, after his retirement, whether he would choose to be the prosecutor or the defence lawyer in a trial, replied: the prosecutor. The prosecutor was after the truth, he said. But he added: "After all, the man in the dock is my brother".
LAO Mong Hay, Hong Kong
this beckong the question over and over time and again: what were these criminals thinking then? why did they kill khmer people and starve people? don't they have brain to conscience as a human being that doing such thing is sinful and sooner or later their time will come back and bite them and that god will see to it that they don't get aways for committing their sinful acts? what were they thinking? i say they all ought to be hanged like saddam hussein of iraq. go to hell, will ya!!!
The ECCC should accommodate Duch to the fullest extent. Cut him a pair of glasses so he can see and remember ALL of the surviving victims. Then tell him that he must die too, because he wore glasses.
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